After the cartoon of Soul Music left a bad taste in my mouth over how cheap it looked, I was very reticent about anything else Sir Pterry related. That is until I saw a bit of "The Color of Magic". Well needless to say I had to see the rest and I wasn't disappointed. Well, not entirely.
Obviously it had a much bigger budget and while I would have really have liked something on par with "Lord of the Rings" I think they hit a good balance between cost and the final product.
The story itself follows the novel with Twoflower, the Discworld's first tourist, coming to Ankh-Morpork and introducing the denizens to things like tourism and the mysterious concept of "In Sewer Ants" where you get money if an accident happens. It does help that Twoflower is played by the only American thus making him stand out more.
In a lot of ways it feels more like a play than a movie or anything and that's not a bad thing. The acting is great. They took the best bits of the novel and worked with them. And how can anybody say anything bad about Tim Curry's run as the overzealous Trymon, Christopher Lee's death, David Jason's wonderful Rincewind and of course Sir Pterry's bit as one of the Astrozoologists? You can't so don't even try.
It's far from perfect but it was the sign of greater things to come.
Obviously it had a much bigger budget and while I would have really have liked something on par with "Lord of the Rings" I think they hit a good balance between cost and the final product.
The story itself follows the novel with Twoflower, the Discworld's first tourist, coming to Ankh-Morpork and introducing the denizens to things like tourism and the mysterious concept of "In Sewer Ants" where you get money if an accident happens. It does help that Twoflower is played by the only American thus making him stand out more.
In a lot of ways it feels more like a play than a movie or anything and that's not a bad thing. The acting is great. They took the best bits of the novel and worked with them. And how can anybody say anything bad about Tim Curry's run as the overzealous Trymon, Christopher Lee's death, David Jason's wonderful Rincewind and of course Sir Pterry's bit as one of the Astrozoologists? You can't so don't even try.
It's far from perfect but it was the sign of greater things to come.